Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jauncey cudgeled his brain for some way to verify experimentally the variable mass of electrons. On December 18 he hit on the idea of passing the electrons from Radium E through a velocity selector, then into a magnetic field. If the particles, selected for uniform velocity, were also of uniform mass, they should be uniformly curved by the field and would strike a photographic film in the same place. By that time the physics department at Washington University was so excited that Jauncey was offered the run of the laboratory and all the help he wanted. He stayed...
Professor Lashley will discuss the various mental functions which have seats in distinct portions of the brain. Dinner will be at 6:15 o'clock and the lecture at 7:20 o'clock...
...praecox, is a major form of insanity, characterized in general by a morbid, seclusive withdrawal from life. Various organic deficiencies have been studied in connection with schizophrenia. Last week Dr. Walter L. Bruetsch of Indiana University Medical School reported another schizophrenic link -this time to rheumatic infection of the brain. Autopsying 84 schizophrenic patients who died at Central State Hospital in Indianapolis, Dr. Bruetsch found that one in twelve had had rheumatic infections of the heart which also involved the brain, which showed inflammation and cellular deterioration...
...treatment for brain rheumatism has been attempted. But Dr. Bruetsch considers the link important. Speaking before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting at Indianapolis, he declared that if a cure for incipient brain rheumatism can be found, the prospect is that thousands of schizophrenics can be saved...
...blood now being acted on by gravity collects in the dependent parts and produces anemia of the brain." 2) "The weight of the body impedes breathing.'' 3) "Vital organs are crushed by the great weight." 4) "The unaccustomed warmth, especially if there is direct insolation [exposure to sun] induces heat stroke." 5) "The unaccustomed temperature interval between night and day gives rise to internal chills and probably pneumonia." 6) "The whales do not die because they are stranded; they are stranded because they are dying...